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It saddens me to forward the news that our good friend and fellow photographer, Matt Quinn, has passed.
As some of you may know, he had been battling cancer for a while and was on his way to recovery.
Please take a moment to remember him in your prayers.

"Sometimes imagination is no more than randomness applied." —Piet Francke

The Pacific Northwest, including western Canada, is having another horrific summer of wildfires. The air has been so bad the past two days in Yakima, visibility is about 1/2 mile. And we're still 20 degrees above average in temperatures.

Shot these this morning about 30 miles north of Yakima where it was marginally better breathing. Your comments regarding strengths, weaknesses, suggestions for revised edits or ideas for next time (which might be tomorrow, lol) are requested and appreciated. From raw, the edits include (but are not exclusively) film grain in #1 and Nik's Polaroid transfer effect in #2. #3 is actually fairly true to the exposure and colors the camera picked up (grain added). I tried lightening the foreground a couple of ways but prefer the silhouette and dark.

The soft pink color in #1 is the color I saw through the muck just as the sun appeared above the trees. The others were shot a bit later.

Linda, all three are superb !!! Although, I do believe you have broken your own record with the last two. I can't even describe, at the moment, how wonderful those two are. A very nice job indeed !!!Dave

davechinn wrote:Linda, all three are superb !!! Although, I do believe you have broken your own record with the last two. I can't even describe, at the moment, how wonderful those two are. A very nice job indeed !!!Dave

Dave, I'm delighted you enjoyed! The birds were cooperative in those dead branches; I didn't even have to add any to the shots

Wow, Linda. I can only echo what has already been said. Two and three are outstanding and three is probably most appealing to me. In three, I love the curved lines of the thistles? and the way the light has illuminated even the delicate cobwebs. The composition and color are above reproach. These definitely deserve a place on your wall!

Carol W wrote:Wow, Linda. I can only echo what has already been said. Two and three are outstanding and three is probably most appealing to me. In three, I love the curved lines of the thistles? and the way the light has illuminated even the delicate cobwebs. The composition and color are above reproach. These definitely deserve a place on your wall!

Thank you so much, Carol. Those are teasel (three different spellings). Often there are fields of them and they can be quite photogenic most any season. I sure was enjoying the dramatic light of that hour's shoot - a great change from just suffering through the smoke and heat

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